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Hitler came into power because the liberal PM appointed him chancellor to avoid creating a coalition with the left party. Liberals would rather work with a fascist over a socialist any day of the week.
See: The new French government
Macron had the option of forming a coalition with the leftists, who won a plurality of the seats. Instead, he joined forces with the nationalist party on the right.
"Ve can control zem."
That's a lie; Paul Von Hindenburg was an a outspoken Monarchist.
These are mutually exclusive?
SPD has been a liberal center-left party since it's founding. Hindenburg's closely held political beliefs had no bearing on the outcome of a liberal party avoiding a coalition with socialists by appointing a fascist to chancellor.
That's a contradiction in terms: Liberalism is a right-wing philosophy; it can't be center-left. JFC you idiots are all the same. Sometimes I wonder if y'all're capable of having 2 consistent thoughts. Go on, tell me about how anyone who isn't an ML is a liberal (including Anarchists) and every Liberal is a fascist.
Look, I don't get to control how people classify political parties. That is how SPD has always been defined. Centrist parties have always had a variety of status quo-esque ideologies. Hindenburg was a monarchist and a member of the SPD, because monarchy was the recently departed political system and he wanted a return to the status quo. Liberals were also a part of SPD, and there are a variety of samey progressive liberal ideologies that seek to entrench capitalism while providing social benefits to the people. That is how a liberal center-left party can exist.
And for the record, I'm an anarcho-syndicalist.
Alright, fair enough.